Managing longevity exposure continues to be one of the greatest challenges facing defined
benefit (DB) pension funds, but the size of transactions undertaken to explicitly hedge this …

… Here I suspect is where the outrage begins, because – as Dan Mikulskis points out, Kirk
delivers his 16 minutes with the self-satisfied smirk of someone who has total self-belief. Kirk told …

This article examines the role of derivatives in the context of the recent crisis in the UK pension
system, specifically in liability-driven investment schemes. It unveils derivatives’ role as …

Bacterial infections in healthcare settings are a frequent accompaniment to both routine
procedures such as catheterization and surgical site interventions. Their impact is becoming …

Bacterial infections in healthcare settings are a frequent accompaniment to both routine
procedures such as catheterization and surgical site interventions. Their impact is becoming …

Evolving immunogenicity assay performance expectations and a lack of harmonized anti-drug
antibody validation testing and reporting tools have resulted in significant time spent by …

We have performed a systematic study of the entropy term in the MM/GBSA (molecular
mechanics combined with generalized Born and surface-area solvation) approach to calculate …

Fractionation enhances the resolution of proteins with similar characteristics by reducing the
number of proteins that comigrate in gels, thus facilitating the detection of lower‐abundance …

We present and evaluate Truncate-after-Preamble (TaP) attacks, whereby a receiver cannot
decode an incoming signal despite good channel conditions. In a TaP attack, the attacker …

Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are widely represented in regenerative medicine
clinical strategies due to their compatibility with autologous implantation. Effective bone …